Have we all been spending the last week planning out the next year?! It’s one of my favorite rituals of the new year, and today we’re going to create an annual calendar in Excel using the SEQUENCE function for all of our plans. Don’t worry - it’s not as complicated as it sounds!!
To create a 2025 calendar, all we need to do is enter the SEQUENCE function, enter “52” as the rows argument (since there are 52 weeks in a year), enter “7” as the columns argument (for the seven days in a week!), and finally, enter the date on which we’d like our sequence to start as the start argument. Since this calendar will be for all of 2025, we’ll enter 1/1/2025 to start the sequence on New Year’s Day. As soon as we enter the function, we’ve got a full 2025 calendar!
If we want to get fancy, we can clean our new calendar up a bit by updating the date format - we’ll just select our dates, press CTRL 1 to open the format dialogue box, select “custom,” and enter “mmm-d” in the type box. Hit OK, and our calendar is more compact and much easier to read! Happy planning!
